Can some point me to a larger pointer?

Daniel~

Daniel~

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My curser is way to small, about the size of a nat, already tried mint settings but no enlarge curser setting seem to help,,,HELP!
 
Strange, my mouse settings worked fine. My cursor was huge when I turned up the slider
 
Oh yeah? Then find my pointer in the attached picture. If you can'then get off your butt and find something for me Mr. IT guy!! LOL
Screenshot from 2020-02-22 19-57-59.png
 
It's just not in me to be cruel, my pointer didn't show up in the screen shot...I image it's because it's two small to be photographed.
 
Ha ha! Sorry I didn't see this until today... kinda ignore emails over the weekend.

The first thing I noticed is your font sizes and icons sizes are much larger in your screen than mine.
So there is a chance the cursor will not get any larger because everything is scaled high enough already.

Also, I was going to send you a screenshot of my cursor, but the screenshot utility and scrot will not include the pointer. Even with an option to "include pointer" still didn't appear.
 
well i found a mess of cursors, but nothing to enlarge them. They are in Mint software manger, under cursor
 
Hmm, not sure why its not behaving???
What is your screen resolution set to?
 
booman said:
Hmm, not sure why its not behaving???
What is your screen resolution set to?
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I have had trouble for a long time getting my fonts so I can read them, hit and miss as far as which settings control which fonts and where.

I have finally figured out were several of the settings I need are. But the cursor remains a mystery! ":O}
Oh! I'm at 4K settings
 
Ah, 4K means super high resolution:
3840 x 2160 pixels

So everything in the screen is super small and the OS needs to adjust with Scaling features.
There is a way to scale the mouse in a Terminal command.

I also read there are cursor themes in the Software Manager. You could try those as well.
Also, if you are using a Theme, try resetting it to the default Mint Theme and see if the mouse scales properly.
 
Let me know if it doesn't work, then we'll try the terminal command
 
To be honest I don't even remember what default looks like. But I've tried dozens over the years and they never change the cursor size.
I tried a half dozen in software manager, mostly silliness and color. one said huge cursor, but didn't do anything.
 
Lets try it from the Terminal

  1. Launch the Terminal
  2. Type this command:
    sudo gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.interface cursor-size 96
  3. Press Enter
  4. Restart Mint
If the mouse isn't any larger then I guess leave it alone, but if its too big, try the command again and user a lower size:

24 - Default

32 - Medium

48 - Large

64 - Larger

96 - Largest
 
daniel@daniel-System-Product-Name:~$ sammysadymayj14
sammysadymayj14: command not found
daniel@daniel-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.interface cursor-size 96
[sudo] password for daniel:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for daniel:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for daniel:
Usage:
gsettings [--schemadir SCHEMADIR] get SCHEMA[:pATH] KEY

Get the value of KEY

Arguments:
SCHEMADIR A directory to search for additional schemas
SCHEMA The name of the schema
PATH The path, for relocatable schemas
KEY The key within the schema

darn, no change, thanks anyway Boo


daniel@daniel-System-Product-Name:~$
 
Dang, it was worth a try.
I'm guess a Theme has hi-jacked your cursor settings. Did you ever try a different theme for Cinnamon?
Maybe even a default theme?
 
Hmm, I'm out of ideas at this point. All I can think of is lowing the screen resolution... maybe to 2K
 
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